Sports Minister
Reaches Out
Minister of Youth Sports Jamesetta Howard
Wolokollie
… Tours Govt. Rural Sporting Facilities
In an effort to decentralize and reawaken the old time soccer spirit
in the rural areas of the country, the Ministry of Youth and Sports,
under the leadership of Cllr. Jamesette Howard Wolokollie, has
launched an assessment tour on all government sporting facilities
outside Monrovia.
According to the ministry’s Assistant Minister for Sports, Mr. V.
Murvee Gray, the government intends to reach its activities and
program to other parts of the country and in so doing, they have
launched a campaign that will enable them assess government’s sports
facilities and equipments in other counties.
He said that it is about time that government takes the game to the
people in the rural areas, most especially to resurface and expose
those young talents that are found in that part of the country.
Mr. Gray asserted that the assessment tour is also intended to
review those sporting facilities and equipments that have been
deserted over the years, to know their status, and re-condition
those ones that will have to be repaired.
He disclosed that the government earlier visited Grand Cape Mount
County on the 20 of May, and is already making preparations to reach
out to other counties including Margibi , Bong ,and Nimba Counties
respectively.
The Sports Minister pointed out that the exercise will bring sports
activities and programs in the country on a regional basis and by
doing so it is necessary to know the status of government sports
facilities outside Montserrado County are up to standard, especially
in the rural areas.
In another development, the Ministry of Youth and Sports has
requested the Liberia Football Association, (LFA) to forward a
listing of few of Liberia’s qualified coaches that will later take
over the Liberian U-15, 17, 23 and the female teams respectively.
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